Losing Earth - Nathaniel Rich

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Auteur(s) : Nathaniel Rich

Editeur : Pan Macmillan

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2019

Nombre de pages : 256

Expédition : 346

Dimensions : 22.3 x 14.2 x 2.7

ISBN : 1529015820

Résumé :

Praise for Losing Earth:

'I can't get over this piece [Losing Earth] in the New York Times. Everyone should read it if they can.' James Corden

'How to explain the mess we're in? Nathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was squandered. Losing Earth is an important contribution to the record of our heedless age.' Elizabeth Kolbert

'This deeply researched, deeply felt book is an essential addition to the canon of climate change literature. Others have documented where we are, and speculated about where we might be headed, but the story of how we got here is perhaps the most important one to be told, because it is both a cautionary tale and an unfinished one. Reading this book, I could not help but imagine my children one day reading a future edition, which will include the story of my generation's response to what we knew.' Jonathan Safran Foer

'In this book, Nathaniel Rich demonstrates exquisitely how shallow debate of a deep problem - the planetary scale and civilizational consequences of climate change - exacerbates the problem. We are still a long way from thinking about climate change in the multi-century frame we need to deal with it realistically. Getting there will be a new skill for humanity, if we get there.' Stewart Brand

Biographie:
Nathaniel Rich is the author of two previous novels, Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor's Tongue, and a work of nonfiction, Losing Earth: A Recent History. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and VICE, and he is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine. He lives in New Orleans.

Sommaire:

• Introduction - i: Introduction
• Unit - ii: Part I: Shouts in the Street:1979-1982
• Chapter - 1: The Whole Banana: Spring 1979
• Chapter - 2: Mirror Worlds: Spring 1979
• Chapter - 3: Between Clambake and Chaos: July 1979
• Chapter - 4: Enter Cassandra, Raving: 1979-1980
• Chapter - 5: A Very Aggressive Defensive Program: 1979-1980
• Chapter - 6: Tiger on the Road: October 1980
• Chapter - 7: A Deluge Most Unnatural: November 1980-September 1981
• Chapter - 8: Heroes and Villains: March 1982
• Chapter - 9: The Direction of an Impending Catastrophe: 1982
• Unit - iii: Part II: Bad Science Fiction: 1983-1988
• Chapter - 10: Caution Not Panic: 1983-1984
• Chapter - 11: The World of Action: 1985
• Chapter - 12: The Ozone in October: Fall 1985-Summer 1986
• Chapter - 13: Atmospheric Scientist, New York, N.Y.: Fall 1987-Spring 1988
• Unit - iv: Part III: You Will See Things That You Shall Believe: 1988-1989
• Chapter - 14: Nothing but Bonfires: Summer 1988
• Chapter - 15: Signal Weather: June 1988
• Chapter - 16: Woodstock for Climate Change: June 1988-April 1989
• Chapter - 17: Fragmented World: Fall 1988
• Chapter - 18: The Great Includer and the Old Engineer: Spring 1989
• Chapter - 19: Natural Processes: May 1989
• Chapter - 20: The White House Effect: Fall 1989
• Chapter - 21: Skunks at the Garden Party: November 1989
• Section - v: Afterword: Glass-Bottomed Boats
• • Section - vi: A Note on the Sources
  • Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements